One of the things about having a Creative Dream PRACTICE, and making space for yourself to SHOW UP for yourself and your dreams, just sitting with your dreams and feelings and needs and all the stuff that is happening… 

Is that it shows you things you don’t notice if you are moving at the pace of your life.

And those things can be CAUSING PROBLEMS for you, and you notice the problems and the impact they have on you but you don’t notice the cause.

Slowing down and PRACTICING Creative Dreaming helps you notice these things, AND gives you space, approaches and tools to actually DEAL with them.

For example, in just showing up and sitting with myself I noticed this feeling like…

I am not doing enough.

So, based on the work we do in the Un-Sticking Station practice, I met with that feeling and… because a Creative Dream Practice is GENERATIVE, HEALING and ALCHEMICAL… I changed it.

I am sharing this post to show… this is possible. This is what I mean when I say that the space between where you are and where you want to be is ALCHEMICAL. Everything can change. Everything is possible. 

But you can only access the alchemy if you are showing up to PRACTICE and have the structure you need to apply those changes. (In the membership, this is where Dream Book 2026, Dream Book itself, and the monthly New Moon Intention Setting calls come together to make this magic happen)

This is my journal entry:

I am not doing enough.

Where is this feeling in your body?

In my hips, like in the back of my hips. I think? Is that weird?

Is that where it is?

Yup, it’s a sensation that wants to push my hips forward, Like “get moving”

Can you ask the sensation… why does it think you’re not doing enough?

Because I’m not doing what I was doing????!!!!?!?! *PANIC*

Oh. Yes I see. It’s like the hips were ENGAGED and MOVING and it was all consistent and that movement and consistency felt like “I am working hard so I am doing the right thing” and it feels very uncomfortable to stop doing that.

I offer my hips a hug, and a mug of tea. One with ashwaghanda in it that will calm them right down.

Suddenly we’re sitting comfortably at a picnic under a tree. My hips are lounging luxuriously, really into the tea.

My heart takes over the conversation.

So, hips, I want to say thank you for how you’ve kept moving all this time, and tried so hard to do the right thing. We all appreciate this so much.

AND…

You can see how things have been changing around you?

Kind of? But mostly I thought if I just kept moving I could keep things from changing too much.

Ahhhh, I see. Yes that makes perfect sense!! That’s such a reasonable way to respond… 

AND…

It feels good to take a break, hey?

Oh definitely. Please pass the banana bread.

Passes the banana bread.

Yeah, so I (me! heart!) was the one who decided to take the break and I guess you didn’t quite hear me.

It’s hard to hear things like that when you’re so focused on “keep moving”

I bet it is! And again, I am so grateful for you for trying to hard to keep things moving.

AND…

I asked us all to slow down, take a break, so I could have a chance to meet with different parts of us and kind of re-group. Like maybe make new plans for how to move forward in a better way. Does that make sense to you?

Well, when I was KEEP MOVING MODE no that wouldn’t make sense, that would cause panic, but now that I am sitting here yes I see it.

OK good! Because I don’t want to stop forward movement I want to look for the ways to move forward that make sense for where we are now, and where we want to go next.

I’ve met with my values, dreams, hopes, creative genius, courage and inner wisdom and they’re all on the same page. I’ve met with a few external advisors as well to help me see the parts that are kind of hidden from where I am, and map out new plans that take my current-day needs into account.

Wow! I was so upset and panicked to see some parts around me slowing down, and I felt like I was the only one keeping to the plan and I was a bit resentful about that but now I see you were making a BETTER plan!

Yes! I’m so glad you can see that now. And I do want your feedback on the plan too!

You are my… forward movement generator, is that right?  You’re not just my hips, right?

That’s right.

My hips now have several binders in front of them.

But now that I have looked through all of these meeting notes I realize… I was not actually rooted in things like values, inner wisdom, authenticity, all these good parts. I was rooted more in old fears and stories that we don’t need to keep carrying. It’s almost like… my hips flip back to the oldest meeting notes in the binders… yeah, it’s like a bunch of you agreed to drop some of these stories which were never our authentic TRUTH, but I missed that meeting so I didn’t know and I’ve been carrying them. Frankly I had started to feel like I was carrying them for everyone, I guess I could feel that most of us had dropped them and the weight was heavier on me.

Oh wow, this is actually why I didn’t hear any of your messages about slowing down and meeting to re-group. I was so weighted down by the extra weight of carrying these stories alone.

Wow, hips. I am SO SORRY. I did not mean to do that to you.

Hips smile at me. 

It’s ok! no real harm done, right? I just kept doing what I was doing… frankly I could have stopped and asked why carrying those stories was starting to feel so heavy, I could have asked for help but I just kept going. It actually feels like I was stuck in movement? And I’m so glad that you stopped to check in with me today. Please pass the banana bread again, and I’m going to need this recipe!

Right? I think the secret is that I put a ton of walnuts in, and I got confused and put extra butter in too.

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This isn't a full and total forever resolution of this part of me who panics when I slow down. But it does give me a whole new way to relate to that part of myself, which creates new options.

 

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